Marisa Abel, a journalist based in New York, who is vacationing in Bangkok, told ABC News she just got to her hotel, and was napping, when the 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit.
“I woke up, everything was moving. So I woke up my partner and said, ‘Hey, it’s an earthquake.'”
She said the motion of the earthquake was like being on a boat, and said she had to walk down 15 flights of stairs to the street below to get to safety. Hotel guests were directed to a park nearby, she said.
“I didn’t panic, but I was terrified,” Abel said. “The people in the hotel was really, really helpful. So they’re making us like to feel safe. … This area I was in, nobody was panicking, but, like, people was really concerned.”
-ABC News’ George Suarez and Othon Leyva
